Welsh Quotes - Page 3

• An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.

  Olaf Tyaransen

  Fans

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• The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

  Arthur Smith

  Reading, Exercise, Night

  "Preparing for the Bard" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2002.

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• Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Class, White

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• No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Hymns

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, Son, Knights

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.

  Tom Jones

  Integrity, Voice, Ambassadors

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• I should have said Welsh has always attracted me.  By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Should Have, Style, Saws

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

  Christian Bale

  Born, Wales

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• He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Grandmother, Play

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• We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants; Northern Irish, Welsh and Canadians; Irish and German Catholics; Scots; Mohammedan Indians; Algerians; Portugese; Belgians; French. We put the Belgians and French there for spite; they could not have been dirtier than the Algerians and the Portugese.

  Robert Graves

  War, Taken, Order

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• Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.

  Lembit Opik

  Memories, Thinking, Years

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• You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?” Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…” “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.” “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

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• What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?” Will demanded, giving her arm a light shake. Cecily’s eyes narrowed. “This morning it was cariad (note: Welsh endearment, like ‘darling’ or ‘love’), now it’s idiot.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Eye, Light

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• Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor Lyall stifled a chuckle. “I am given to understand that he does not approve of spelling one’ s name with two ll’s. He finds it inexcusably Welsh. I suspect he may be quite taken with you, however.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Taken, Mean

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• The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Blow, Forever, Goes On

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.

  John Prescott

  Mother, Country, School

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• Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

  Iwan Rheon

  Real, Drama, Home

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

  Iwan Rheon

  Drama, School, Thinking

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.

  Iwan Rheon

  Growing Up, School, Artist

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.

  Christine Jennings

  Moving, Southern, Village

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know I could have stayed in my comfortable chair in South Wales having the first Welsh team that got promoted and been there a number of years, but for me I wanted to work at a club that was world class and at the very, very top.

  Brendan

  Team, Years, Class

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• I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

  Helen McCrory

  Hair, Ordinary, Records

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• I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

  Sophia Myles

  Grandmother, Half, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

  Anne Robinson

  Mean, America, World

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